No One Prayed Over Their Graves av Khaled Khalifa

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<p><b>A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century from the International prize winning author of <i>Death is Hard</i><i>Work</i> and <i>In Praise of Hatred.</i></b><br><br><b>"A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer." Hisham Matar</b><br><br><b>¿</b><br><br>December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo¿only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops and places of worship, and their neighbours, families and children are nearly all dead. Their lives will never be the same.<br><br>Tracing Hanna¿s life before and after the flood¿when he embarks on a search for the meaning of life¿<i>No One Prayed Over Their Graves</i> is a portrait of a wider society on the verge of great change; from the provincial village to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and